Card holder for typewriters



Jan. 8 1924- W; A. HARDMAN CARD HOLDER FOR TYPEWRITERS Filed Aug dwi m mt INVENTIOI? J /r a n" u. 6 1 HIT.

WITNESSES M ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 8,1924. m I i I UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

WALTER A. HARDMAN, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CARD HOLDER ron TYPEWRITERS. I

Application filed August 16, 1922. Serial No. 582,233.

To all'whomz't may concern: the body is again folded or crimped as at Be it known that I, WALTER A. HARDMAN, 14, to provide a flange 15 oppositely disposed a citizen of the United States, and a resident with respect to the flange. 13. These two j of the city of New York. borough of Brookflanges are placed theproper distance apart 6 lyn, in the county of Kings and State of to receive a card therebetween, and are 60 New York, have invented a new and Imadapted to receive the top and bottom edges proved Card Holder for Typewriters, of of the card to be written upon. These twowhich the following is a full, clear, and excrimped or folded portions are intermediate act description. the ends of the body of material from which in The present invention relates to new and the device is made and this construction prouseful improvements intypewriter attachvides an upper apron or-projecting portion ments and it pertains more particularly to 16 and a lower apron or projecting portion a card holder therefor. 1'1. The lower portion 17 is preferably of It is one of the objects of the invention reater dimension than the upper portion 16.

l to provide a device for holding cards in The lower apron or projecting portion 17 7 writing position which is capable of use is provided with a plurality of perforations with any standard make oftypewriter. 18 and 19, the perforations 18 being forced his a further object of the invention to I through from one side 'of the body portion provide a device which will securely hold while the perforations 19 are forced through 20 index cards, postal cards, and other similar from the pposite side of the body portion. 7 cards in writing position in a typewriter. By bending the body portion at 12 and 14,

It is a further object of the invention to a depressed portion is provided and'said provide a deviceof this character in which depressed portion will naturally lie in a the cards may be placed in a holder without plane below the portions 16 and 17.

2 removal of the holder from the machine, In order to facilitate the feeding of the 80 thus greatly expediting the writing of cards device through the t-ypewritin vmachine, on a typewriter. friction strips are emp-loye and said IVith the above and other objects in view, friction strips extend throughout. the width V reference is had .to the accompanying drawof the depressed portion 20 as more clearly ings, in which. shown in Fig. 2 and are arranged at the Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of edges thereof. In addition to aiding in a. typewriter showing the card holder in feeding the device through the "machine, position thereon; these friction strips serve to prevent the Y Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the card feed rollers from contacting with the lower 35 holder; v flange 15 by distending the two end rollers Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the so that when the middle feed roll comes into line 3 3 of Fig. 2. contact with the flange 15, which is raised Referring more particularl to the drawto receive the card, the middle roll will not ings, the device in its preferred form 'commeet with the same amount of resistance as 40 prises a sheet of relatively thin metal, 11, it would if it were left to pass over the such, for example, as aluminum, tln, phos-' raised surface alone. K

phor bronze, steel, or thelike,it being un- The device functions in the following derstood that the metal or other material manner:

from which the device is made should be The apron.or projecting portion 16 is insuificiently flexible to pass around the platen sorted intothe typewriting machine in the roll of'a typewriting machine. While metal same manner as asheet of paper and the has been specified as being used in the preplaten is turned to operate the feed rollers ferred form of the invention, it is obvious and feed the device'through the machine.

that flexible materials, ,'such as cloth, paper, .When the deviceassumes the position shown or the like, maybe employed in lieuthereof. in Fig. 1, a card 26 is positioned therein This metal sheet is crimped or folded upon by placing the upper and lower edges of itself near its upper end as indicated by the the card beneath the flanges 13 and 15, re-

reference character 12 to provide a flange spectively. In bringing the device to this 13 or the like. A suitable dist-ancefrom the position, the apron or projection 17 will 1 55 crimped or folded portion 12 of the body, have contacted with-the feed rollers and the e spacing mechanism common to typewriting machines of standard make. After the desired matter has been written on the card the device is fed through the machine to the position where the card may be removed therefrom without entirely removing the device from the machine and the written card may be replaced by a blank card and the 0 ration repeated;

To faci itate the insertion and .the ,removal of the card, the upper flange" 13 is notched as at 27 in order that the edge of the card may be accessible to aid in inserting and removing the same, and to lend flexibility to the flan e 13 said flange is provided with note es 27 preferably of V shape.

In addition to constructing the device from a single piece of material, it-is obvious that three separate pieces of material may be employed if desired, and that the same may be secured together in the relation:

above described in any suitable manner dependent only upon the type of material used From the foregoing it is apparent that the present invention provides a new. and

vc: i improved form of card-holder for t' pewrit,

in'g machines which will. greatly acilitate the writing of indexcards, postal cards and the like, and that with the present device it is not necessary, to remove the card holder from the machine upon the writing of each single cardsince the card holder may be moved to a position from which the card may be removed from the same.

I claim:

1'. A device of the character described comprising a body portion, a rib crimped in saidbody portion adjacent one end and extending transversely of said body portion,

a second rib formed by crimping the body portion, said second rib extending transverse-1y 0f the body portion, in spaced relation to the first-mentioned rib, said firstk mentioned rib being rovided withia plural? ity of notches to faci itatethe insertion'and removal of the card between spaced ribs;

2., A device of the character described comprising a bodyportion of thin pliable metal, a rib extending transversely of said body portion, near one end thereof, a second rib extending transversely of the bod portion at substantially the center thereo both of said ribs being ,formed by crimping thev metallic body and. said ribs being opposed towards each other whereby a card ma 1 be retained therebetween, a notch forme in 1 the first-mentioned rib adjacent each of its ends, and a notch formed in said first-men-. tioned rib intermediate of its ends to facili tate insertion and removal of a card from: between said ribs, and friction surfacesdefining the end edges of the space between a said ribs WALTER A; HARDMAN; 

